The sign of the 1 L b Cotton effects (CEs) of the benzene chromophore from about 240 to 270 nm in the circular dichroism (CD) of enantiomers of ring-substituted chiral benzylcarbinamines and benzylcarbinamine salts are correlated with their absolute configurations using the benzene sector rule and a consideration of the equilibrium between their two conformers of lowest energy and of oppositely signed rotatory power. These CEs are the result of vibronic borrowing from allowed transitions of the benzene chromophore at shorter wavelength, but an induced rotatory contribution, the sign of which may be predicted using the benzene chirality rule, is small compared to the vibronic contribution and need not be considered when predicting the sign of the 1 L b CEs.